The DES "S-boxes" were magic numbers that people believed it was a backdoor. It took years for people to see that it closed weaknesses.
The way the NSA work, they can't talk about why they put in the magic numbers.
Not that we should not try to find out what the numbers do. If we change the "magic number" without learning that it really is a weakness, we could end up making Elliptic curve weaker.

The down side is the NSA are why we ever even got to DES. They were the big guys pushing for more/better encryption; and still are.
Without them, who would have put out the big money to keep effective Encryption coming?

This sounds less like Amazon being evil and trying to hurt people.
It sounds like they put that in to cover their butt. They don't have to deal with book makers saying they are "promoting" braking the law.

No, it is to much money. The IRS will give him a past and say he only has to pay 1% of taxes owe, and no penalties. Also he will have 20 years to pay, and if he gives it to his kids, he owes no taxes and they don't have to pay any.

The Supreme Court at one time did read it as "state militia", only a few years ago did they --I think for the 1st time-- read it as a right for private citizens. So it could be a little while before the supreme Court changes its mind.

Who breaks the law, and what law; does effect guilt. You are always breaking laws. It is the base for getting you convicted that marks you.
Ex. Man and woman go to bar get drunk. While drunk they have sex. Later the woman can press charges on the man for 'rape' and win. The way the laws are USED says that a man should know better then to have sex with a woman who does not have full control of her self (Drunk, drugged, insane,...). The man would be hard pressed to get rape charges on the woman even if under the law it was still rape. The woman, who was also drunk, took avenge of a man who was not in full control of him self..